Tour of White Rock 2008

From Scott Zwizanski:

For the Tour of White Rock, Garrett and I were joined by the teams newly graduated construction manager, Morgan Schmitt. The race was set up as an omnium, starting with a Hillclimb TT, then a crit and ended with a tough RR held on a 10k hilly circuit.

The Hillclimb TT was just under 1k long and morgan finished up in 10th and I ended up 13th, both of us just missing points for the omnium competition.

The crit was a cool little 1k course with a nice little hill on the backside. The race was fast with lots of attacking and small groups getting small gaps, but no one in the race watned to miss a move. So it ended up coming down to a field kick. I had some bad luck in the final lap and had another riders skewer take out several of my spokes in the front wheel, so I never made it to the finish line. Morgan battled his way to a 10th place finish.

The final race was a 134k RR, held on a 10k circuit and ending on a smaller 4k circuit for 6 laps. After 10 laps on the big circuit, the field was together and chris horner hit out on the big climb. We missed the front group of 6 riders and the 3 of us chased like mad on the front of the field. On the small laps, the chasing field was down to just 20 riders. Garrett set me up to try to bridge across, but it was too little too late. And I crossed the line in 7th place.

The racing for BC Superweek was great, and it should set us up well for the upcoming races in August and September.

BC Superweek

From Garrett Peltonen:

This year Scotty Zwizanski and myself are representing the Bissell Pro Cycling team at BC Superweek held in picturesque Vancouver, British Columbia. BC Superweek is compilation of four different races…two separate crits sandwiched between two three day stage races. Basically it is a lot of racing…eight races in ten days to be exact!

After five of the eight days of racing complete Scotty and I have had some success but also some disappointment! The first race on our schedule was the Tour of Delta which was a three day stage race. Despite not having any aero equipment we managed a solid third (Scotty) and sixth (me) in the tt and held on for two top ten finishes in the overall.

Following the Tour of Delta was the historic Gastown Crit held in downtown Vancouver. The crowds were huge and the race was crazy hard with only about one-third of the field finishing the race! Despite both of us being there at the end we could only muster up Scotty’s nineteenth place finish.

That brings us to last night’s crit….the Giro de Burnabi. Once again the race came down to another field kick and once again Scotty and I came up a bit short. However, there is still the Tour of White Rock which starts today and I think this race is more up our alley?

At the end of the day it is my first time in Vancouver or British Columbia for that matter and I am really impressed with the area and the racing! Now hopefully we can get a win a the Tour of White Rock to make the trip complete!